WINNER

Squid School.

Fiabacet Reef, Raja Ampat, Indonesia

ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Male peacock spider (Maratus splendens) displaying.

Sydney, New South Wales

INTERPRETIVE

Hold me tight.

Horsham, Victoria

ANIMAL PORTRAIT

Caterpillar’s lunch.

Geraldton, Western Australia

BLACK AND WHITE

Mount Doom.

Mt Ngauruhoe, New Zealand

UNDERWATER

Blue blenny.

Cendana Pearl Farm jetty, Aljui Bay, Raja Ampat, Indonesia

ANIMAL PORTRAIT

Splendid fairy-wren (Malurus splendens) calling.

Dryandra Nature Reserve, Western Australia

THREATENED

Cockatoo fun.

Coodoonup, Mandurah, Western Australia

BLACK AND WHITE

The tail-slap – humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae).

Exmouth Gulf, Western Australia

WILDERNESS

Estuary curves.

Estuary west of Bullo River (near Victoria River junction), Northern Territory

UNDERWATER

What are you doing down there?

Hopkins Island, South Australia

BOTANICAL

Triffids rock.

Anstey Hill Recreation Park, South Australia

INTERPRETIVE

Remarkable Rocks.

Flinders Chase National Park, Kangaroo Island, South Australia

INTERPRETIVE

White-cheeked Honeyeater (Phylidonyris nigra) on grevillea.

Joondalup, Western Australia

ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Australian Fur Seal (Arctocephalus pusillus) breach.

Cape Bridgewater, Victoria

ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Fairy terns (Sterna nereis) mating.

Swan River, Perth, Western Australia

OUR IMPACT

Tucker time.

Mallacoota Inlet, Victoria

ANIMAL PORTRAIT

Hunter and hunted.

Narawntapu National Park, Tasmania

JUNIOR

Carnaby’s black cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus latirostris).

Darling Scarp, Western Australia

OUR IMPACT

Tycoon.

Christmas Island

THREATENED

Bekko.

Fish Rock Cave, South West Rocks, New South Wales

INTERPRETIVE

Calligraphy.

Paparoa National Park, New Zealand

WILDERNESS

Southwest coast.

Rennell Island, Solomon Islands

ANIMAL PORTRAIT

Mother and calf.

Tonga, South Pacific

BLACK AND WHITE

Looming dawn.

Near Bay of Fires, Tasmania

OUR IMPACT

Stripped to the bone.

The Sounds, north coast of the South Island, New Zealand

UNDERWATER

Giant encounter.

Cenderawasih Bay, West Papua

BLACK AND WHITE

The rock.

Two Rocks, Western Australia

Highly recommended

Elephant Seal (Mirounga leonina), Right Whale Bay

Another common local: South Georgia hosts the largest subpopulation of southern elephant seals in the South Atlantic, with more than 400,000 individuals, including approximately 113,000 breeding females, from a total world-wide population that was estimated to be between 664,000 and 740,000 in the mid-90s. Colonies on South Georgia are thought to be stable or growing, while those in the Southern Indian and Pacific Oceans have decreased by up to 50%.